by rizal on
February 6th, 2009
The first lab session of my Computer Science course consisted primarily of learning the following Unix commands: pwd, ls, cd, cp, mv, rm, mkdir, chmod, more, man. Although I’ve been using nothing but Windows throughout my career – from Windows 95 to 2000 to XP – these commands have proven to be indispensible for those [...]
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by nazham on
February 4th, 2009
Need to view Microsoft Silverlight enabled sites, but you’re on Linux, and running Firefox as the web browser? Have no fear, Moonlight is here.
Moonlight is an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix or Linux platform.
The current release version is 1.0. All you have to do is, just go to their site, and install [...]
by rizal on
January 30th, 2009
Scenario
You would like to automate the export of SQL dump files from one Linux server to another using scp. These dump files are to be generated and exported once every two weeks. You also wish to archive these dump files on the source server.
So let’s say the servers and directories are as follows:
Source
Hostname: perak
Username: nazham
Dump [...]
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by nazham on
January 18th, 2009
Red Hat Training provides classroom-based courses at convenient worldwide locations and in a variety of topics. I’ve just finished my training for RH033 Red Hat Linux Essentials, last week. Among Linux Red Hat training you can get here in Malaysia are:
RH033 Red Hat Linux Essentials
RH131 Red Hat Linux System Administration
RH253 Red Hat linux Networking and [...]
by nazham on
December 30th, 2008
Following my previous post nazham.com on Twitter, I’ve just beginning to get involved with Twitter.
Below are a couple of Twitter clients that I’ve used in Ubuntu:
Twitux
A Twitter client for GNOME.
Twitux is a lightweight client for the twitter messaging service, featuring time-line auto updating, a tray area icon and notification of new messages.
gTwitter
Client for tracking and [...]
Tags: Twitter . Ubuntu . Ubuntu 8.10
